This is a big bummer and the waste of a morning...
I bought a fancy new machine (one of those E-Cube mini sytems... it's
very neat, and glows BLUE!). I installed my freshly downloaded
powerpack, with XFS root and XFS home.
At the lilo section of drakx, I asked for lilo to be installed to MBR.
I got this message: Fatal error, filesystem would be destroyed by LILO
boot sector /dev/hda.
But then it just goes on with the lilo setup. No way to go back. After
the lilo step, I got the same error again, and no bootloader was
installed. Grrr.
So I reran drakx, and this time chose 'upgrade' instead of 'install',
hoping I could change the configuration to install bootloader to root.
But no, I was not asked that question, it just kept trying to install to
MBR.
So I reran drakx, doing another complete install. This time I chose to
install the bootloader to root. The error: You cannot install the
bootloader to an XFS partition. Awesome. Once again, instead of going
back and letting me select MBR, it goes on into the LILO setup forever.
Pretty dumb stuff.
Austin
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Austin Acton
Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto
MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca
